New provincial regulations on special education shatter the myth of local control.
Year: 2004
Moore Wisdom Needed
A portrait of Patrick Moore, modern environmentalist
Needed: Ethics for Environmental Activists
Environmental activists specializes in preaching, but their own moral standing is suspect.
Reduced School Taxes KAP Victory
The Government of Manitoba has reduced the education tax levels on farmland.
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Earth is Cooling, not Warming, Climatologist Says
GLOBAL warming isn’t a threat to Canada’s farm belt because scientists who say the Earth is warming are wrong, says former University of Manitoba climatologist Tim Ball.
The Republican Future
The Republican sweep is a watershed event in postwar history which portends a major intellectual shift in the war of ideas.
Canada Needs to Decentralize
Decentralizing power to the provinces is long overdue in Canada.
Moving Manitoba from a “Have Not” to a “Have” Province
Manitoba’s Liberal Party Leader suggests ways to improve the province’s economic prospects.
Winnipeg Police: High Staffing, Low Clearance Rates
Although the performance of the Winnipeg Police Service improved slightly in 2003, its relative efficiency is still lower than that of most other large metropolitan forces in Canada.
Global Cooling and Canadian Agriculture
Environment Canada has taken a single scientifically unjustified position on climate change. Logic almost dictates we should plan for cooling. We can adjust to warming with techniques practiced to the south, but nobody is farming north of us.
The Keys to Aboriginal Prosperity
Research from Harvard University confirms that poverty on Indian reservations is avoidable. Healthy economies need stability and freedom.
The More Things Stay the Same
The federal and provincial governments renew equalization program without substantive reform. No accountability. No hope of ending the debilitating dependence of the have-not provinces on the charity of the haves.
The Poison Elixir of Equalization
Efforts to get more equalization for Manitoba will push the province further into an insidous welfare trap that increases subsidy dependency by rewarding policies that undermine the private economy.